Dar_al-Hajar

Dar al-Hajar

Dar al-Hajar

Yemen royal palace

The Dar al-Hajar (Arabic: دار الحجر, "Stone House" or "Rock Palace") is a former royal palace located in Wadi Dhar about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from Sana'a, Yemen. Built in the 1920 as the summer retreat of Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din, ruler of Yemen from 1904 to 1948, it sits on top of a structure built in 1786 for the scholar al-Imam Mansour. The palace stayed in the royal family until the Yemen revolution of 1962. The palace is now a museum.[1] In 1974, Pier Paolo Pasolini used the palace as the home of Princess Dunya in his film The Arabian Nights.[2]

Dar al-Hajar palace (2009)

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Goran, David (October 23, 2016) "The Rock Palace: An iconic symbol of Yemen built in the 1700s" Vintage News
  2. [2]
    "Filming Locations for Pier Paolo Pasolini's Arabian Nights (1974), in Yemen, Iran and Nepal".

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